Author Archives: Shaun

ISO 9001:2015 Non-Applicability

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Shaun

I’m starting to get asked this quite a bit just now, so maybe it’s time for an article to explain it and to point people at. Those people going through ISO 9001 transition now, and whose QMS has what ISO 9001:2008 calls “exclusions” will need to revisit the matter. In many ways the same rules apply, but there are a couple of differences. Continue reading →

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ISO 45001 Update (August 2017)

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Shaun

I’ll start this post by outlining the background and history of the transition of OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001, for those of you that may not have been following the saga, or for those of you that have been fed incorrect information Continue reading →

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ISO 9001:2015 Organisational Context

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Shaun

There has been a lot of chatter this past year about this new section 4 requirement of ISO 9001. Not all of it, in my opinion, either informed or particularly helpful. In essence, the whole concept of ISO 9001 Organisational Context is something we can summarise in very simple terms. Continue reading →

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How To Write A Nonconformance

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Shaun

Audit reporting requires a complete picture – to report the good as well as the bad – but in this post I want to concentrate on how we construct nonconformances. Continue reading →

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ISO 9001:2015 External Issues

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Shaun

In this post I will explore what (external issues) actually means and offer some suggestions and examples of how an organisation might demonstrate conformance to this requirement, focussing in this post specifically on external issues. For more background information on the wider requirement and on internal issues, you might find some useful guidance in this earlier post. Continue reading →

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